we have a fair bit here, mostly dead or rotten, but sometimes we do get a a few good logs, I hate keeping wood from work since I have probably 20 trailer loads in my yard already but locust is one I always try to bring home to split!
Sweet load. I've had times where I'm really having to figure out where to stuff the saw(s) when the PU is loaded to the hilt.
I want to haul more, but the truck blew a u joint a couple days ago and the part is on order. It's not a standard part. It's a 91 f250, regular cab lariat, with a heavy duty front axle, a mazda transmission, 3 ton rear end, and aluminum drive shaft. It's always hard to find the right parts and I don't have all the parts cataloged. Waiting on brake parts too, since those need doing.
I've got a 330gal tote (~1,000 lbs) overflowing with scrap wire, data, waiting for it's turn for a loaded truck picture. Hopefully copper will be at a high point when I get it taken in.
I brought some aluminum in Friday and being a small load it kinda wasn't worth the effort for the $25 I got. Im overflowing here with it and that load went straight from the job to the scrap yard. Kinda envious of you guys that can sit on a boatload of it and unload at the right time.
Dried standing it looks like? even better! I hate the fact almost 100% of the locust we get is either alive and super heavy or totally rotten and it more like a tube of bark standing in the woods, never dead standing stuff, I'd have to go back and look but a few years ago I was removing a few for a dude, the base of one was totally hollow and rotten with cracks all over, as I was spiking my way down it to chunk out more 13ft logs, you could actually see the cracks open and close, that one had me puckered up some! Be careful of the sawdust, my dad got some in his throat and ever since that job he's had an odd little bump, I've seen people that got a thorn broke off in their skin and they had some nasty infections too, not my favorite tree to work with when I'm dealing with brush, but the logs are sweet! EDIT: I forgot to mention, the thorns aren't any better when you're climbing them on a 100 degree day with 80-90% humidity...
We had three good storms here in 2015, 2018, 2020 and most of the stuff I'm getting is from them either blow over and/or clean up wood. Maybe 1 in 3 has inner decay at the base IME. Occasionally in parts of the trunk.
1/3 cord going to a regular customer. He has a lake house and buys 4/year. I sold him some kindling while I was there. Sent from my motorola edge plus 5G UW (2022) using Tapatalk
Another load of white oak! Dcnr officer paid me a visit today and checked my permit! He seemed concerned that I was out there cutting by myself
